The Sith Eightfold Path, Tools or Weapons of Mastery and Void Meditation
The first part is the use of powerful tools or weapons as part of our true practices that many Sith make use of: that behaviour is driven by the drive within by our passions and the energetic realization of our will. Things will go wrong if we forget about what develops what, inhibitory vs exhibitory and what each means for Sith, and our true sense of dark side awareness to realize our destiny.
What Sith-like people agree on is that practices for awakening the darkness within is always similar to all those who realize or claiming for oneself what makes one strongest: which is always about behaviour that aligns our internal states to that which exists locked behind layers of programming, internal states of being that allows one to have unstoppable drive and unshakeable while at the same time having control over ones impulses or emotions, or in short; Sith values that promote growth and transformation. A system that seeks personal transformation must be inhibitory or exhibitory practices to further ones sense of self, and furthering growth and transformation to become the real Sith self, gaining gnosis or unlocking our mental power.
The thread through all these things is a doctrine of action and hierarchy which is an elaboration on how we honor ourselves, esoteric philosophy, and elaborating on our practices we often use. Centred around the individual and self-interest. Anybody who disagrees realizes that there is no other way to create a sustainable system, one driven by authority only means conforming is all that people will care about, so if the tides or winds change and the culture becomes anti-system, then it will fall apart because then people will find it culturally acceptable to disapprove of what the elites are saying and doing, and find their lot in life if even a tad under developed compared to neighbouring countries (generally speaking) will surely want and fight for change. Or interpersonal: behaviour being driven by social approval, which is a bad heuristically model. Because you can’t verify something as true by its popularity or because a lot of people engage in a particular kind of behaviour. Social proof doesn’t form a useful metric by which to judge a value, belief or standard, but only by its fruits. Universal ethics can be determined by how much those values decondition of our limitations and promote a kind of cultivated, ambitious, self-reliant and having self-worth. Tapping into a particular set of values amongst like-minded people presents conjured into a story or narrative may present an alternative to the dominant narrative and thus may influence politics.
Here are the eight simple methods of creating an empowered mental and spiritual state, through energy accumulation and mind-altering techniques.
1. Meditation. There are various kinds, but we primarily use void meditation, most meditation practices are inhibitory but there are a few that are exhibitory or excitatory. This is to spark and turn emotions into formidable flame of dominating energy and create a tide of creative energy for the day ahead. It may be used to have a better night’s sleep. It can also be used whenever you need a boost of energy. Meditative mindfulness practices and void meditation both can alter your mental states, so you’ll have to know why before entering the gateway.
2. Breath control. This is the path to many such abilities people would consider to be healthy, energetic, and ease of use for all people to utilise in inner workings. Breath control is the best method for attaining higher states of energy control and to become as energetic as possible. Those with masters of breath science, particularly the work of the same name; “Science of Breath” by Yogi Ramacharaka, will learn how to use breath to gain any powerful mental state.
3. Intoxication. The use of wine, herbs, incense, and oils to gain different types of intensity and gain gnosis. We never really use drugs to attain these states of awareness of trance-like states, but we do rely on these tools to help aid us in the path to power, to help achieve a heightened state of awareness and power. Any kind of incense through inhaling it from a short distance.
4. Music. Anything that has drums and a rapid rhythm, which awakens a primal energy within and excite the senses and mind or exhibitory music which can either through drums, rattles, or repetitive motions can do so as well, in fact the latter helps attain excited or even agitated state where you can lose yourself in the music or dance. There is also inhibitory music that produces a state of relaxation and calmness, through soothing vibrating throat singing, singing bowls, slow tribal music, and wind instruments, and even symphonic or operatic music. Chants can stimulate the will to such an extent that it can ready you for anything. Assuming the right affirmations are chosen that are selected by experienced practitioners, these chants can and will bring about the most excitement, invigorate you, and create an empowered will capable of facing anything.
5. Isolation. This promotes the self-cultivation that gets the most out of any of these practices, its only through isolation that we can gain the most patience, creativity, and thus the perseverance for repetitive practice that requires the toughest form of discipline. The discipline over our impulses, emotions, and the force, of our shadow-minds, where that energy is constantly swirling around within, emotions (energy in motion) is turned into a concentrated form. Its influx by nature, but with discipline it turned from raw energy and lack of concentrated energy, into honed passion, which is energy that does not constrained by rules, regulations or restrictions, but felt deeply without restraint. Know ourselves in our totality by being extended uninterrupted solitude to be our authentic self without filters. Certain types of meditation help with this process, social situations distract from discovering connections that only solitude can bring about. Isolation instead allows complex problem solving and insights into our own identity, in-groups, and the human condition. Feeling and knowing our current self and the way forward towards realizing the Sith self can be aided very well by the use of solitude. By keeping vigils in caves or on a mountaintop can be used in the path of isolation. The other component is dark caves or rooms can provide states of awareness above that of our normal state in these places during isolation. We can be put into a trance like state receiving gnosis during periods of solitude.
6. Dances. The dances of tribes and primal groups can and will keep you take you into a trance through rhythmic movements, if it utilises a lot of spinning around in one direction and then in other when we feel ourselves being pulled into a trance, and the use of closed-fists and fast movements, it can and will force you into a primal state of ecstasy energetic rapture and pleasure. We also utilise other repetitious forms of dancing and chanting of one’s tradition.
7. Sex. The sexual act is a powerful tool used by Sith to either fuel their rituals or to acquire greater sense of spiritual awareness. The science and art of sex magick will be one the most useful tools used by the Sith to attain their desires and break their limitations. The act of sex is a form of ecstasy, if you do not lose yourself in the pleasure, sexual acts will enhance kundalini- raise consciousness or spiritual awareness. The Sith use sexual rituals from the East and West, in traditional sex magick, this requires the participant to have a partner, more than one, or alone. The use of sexual energy can boost a ritual to achieve a fiery desired effect, particularly in the use of sigil magick.
8. Pain. For all Sith pain has always been a staple of profound limit breaking potential, part of our path of power and ascendency to immortal status due to revealing the extent of our strength. Pain reveals strength but it also produces within us the knowledge of how far we can go before we do not take notice of that pain anymore and become indifferent to not only what pain has bound us to, but also beyond the plights and discomforts of life in general. Wherever pain or discomfort would control us, the pain is really just becoming a catalyst for growth or even something to be completely ignored if it might interfere with us in combat. Of course, pain has its applications by voluntarily seeking it out, and voluntarily controlling it, it not only greatly increases our tolerance threshold for pain, but it also allows us to push ourselves beyond human limitation in combat scenarios. Martial arts do something similar but only on the level of hardening our bodies and strengthening the mind to be able to withstand more rigor, discipline or tough times.
Inhibitory will soothe the mind, lull the senses and relax the body, pulling us into a slower feeling and thinking mode, where the activity of our body is lowered, where we feel like the world around is being lost or disappearing before us and where we seem to be transitioning to a different current or reality. Inhibitory is what we focus on and what it does is cause our thinking and mind to slow down. Exhibitory or excitatory will produce the desired effects of putting us in a heighten state of awareness, which can also help with gnosis. Inhibitory is obtaining plenty of insight and wisdom by taking you inside yourself, while exhibitory provides rapid thoughts and perception that instils a new form of perception in many cases, allowing us to see and gain insights most will miss. Both are will be used by Sith because both can and will ensure that we obtain the most of our rituals, incantations, pathfinding, and certain types of sigil magick.
What altered mental states or altered consciousness can easily be recognised by the practices Ravana Nuun is suggesting here, to feel the altering of normal reality into a deeper state of consciousness, or the excitatory heighten awareness and induce new perception and thought. Both seem to work for our purposes of moving into a new Sith state of being, or into Sith self states, where we can overcome mental limitations, mental and bodily aversion to discomfort, anxiety and towards the unknown, and beyond shattering limitations there is also the breaking apart of ourselves and being put back together again into a more powerful, and unfathomably new spirit and personality, capable of three major things; being able to deal with new and complex situations and see through dogma’s, agenda’s and doctrine’s, being able to rise by ones will and efforts.
I’ll add my own suggestion here to expand upon the Sith Eightfold Path.
9. Sigil magick. As a form of control over ourselves, and to gain power over ourselves we use sigils anointed with blood or other bodily fluid. This only ever works if you can stimulate the energy movement through the chakra’s, to do this you need write down below a power symbol your passions you wish to have a deeper understanding of or the weaknesses you wish to be cleansed of. If you wrote down a goal or passion, picture in your mind your ambitious goal or passion as you look upon the sigil. Now recite the Sith invocation A for finding your true desires, and B for destroying weaknesses.
9. A) Invocation
By the power of the Dark Side I wish to gain awareness of my desires and true intent, the world has scarcely guided me towards my destiny, I know take ownership of my fate and destiny. I invoke and unlock my destiny with the passions I stated. So that I can walk with true will from now onwards. Let my purpose burn I begin to see my desires with ease, I call on the true purpose and begin to bring forth my true power. Let this power symbol, bring clarity to my desires. I am Passion. I am Strength. I am Power. I am Victory. I am Creator. I am Destroyer. I am Death. I am Powerful. I am Sith now and forevermore!
9. B) Invocation
The Power of Darkness allows me to see the blinding light of religious programming, family programming, government programming and society programming. As the power of darkness flows through my veins and it is my natural birthright, I begin to destroy all that holds me back. I burn this ________. As a sign and symbol that nothing will hold me back. Nothing will control me, nothing but myself is the master and ruler over myself. I have the power within me all along. Through the power of the Dark Lord of the Sith, which is myself, I now have eliminated all tools that have been used to destroy me. I now realize that I am the only god that is and has always been and from this day forth I will never give my power away again. I am the heart of Darkness, I am Wrath, I am Powerful, I am Conqueror, and I am Sith!
Pathworking
Visualize yourself walking up a mountain. Each step you take is a step that puts the past programming and conditioning behind you. Feel yourself releasing after each step. Feel the yourself becoming free after every step. Let the wind be reminder that you are exhaling the bullshit and inhaling the new power that you possess. Eventually, you reach the mountain top and you look down and see yourself as the Dark Lord, the ruler over yourself who has reached the pinnacle of self-mastery after your fall and amnesia. Look at the scenery below and realize this is your kingdom that you have rightfully earned through your works.
This Ritual should be performed for 4 days one week and 4 days the next week.
“Magick is the art of commanding change in accordance with the will.
Every act being intention is a magical act and the process of focusing on goals and maintaining the discipline to attain such is a magical act.” (Michael W. Ford)
“Magick is the art of commanding change in accordance with the will.
Every act being intention is a magical act and the process of focusing on
goals and maintaining the discipline to attain such is a magical act.” (Michael W. Ford)
Void Meditation section.
Step 1. Enter into a calm state through your use of breath control, breath in deeply nine times and on the 9th time hold your breath for 9 seconds. Once you let go of your breath then do so vocally as a growl, which releases your hidden strongest and darkest emotions and feelings, which creates a highly tuned field around and within you to the dark side.
Step 2. Focus on the image below once the room seems to grow dim or dark after focusing on your breath and something in the room, make sure that the room already doesn’t have any lights on in nearby rooms, it difficult to obtain the desired effect. Once you feel that everything has become blackened around you, in a dark haze dimmed sufficiently to focus better, then return to this image.
Step 3. Focus on the centre of it for 3 or more minutes until you start to feel yourself being pulled into its radiant centre. is don’t resist or fight the process, let yourself be drawn deeper into the dark side as you see the tide or whirlpool, or movement of the blackness moving and swirling around counterclockwise. Once you’re drawn in don’t try to pull away or let yourself become lost within the darkness for longer then ten minutes. It’s unnecessary to do this for longer than ten to twenty minutes as that doesn’t seem to be any large benefits outside of that time frame.
Ravana Nuun emphasises the following pathworking: “Now you’re deep inside the void, feel how the void is a sense of nothingness, but everything. It is complete darkness, no shadows, light, or anything but complete darkness. Raise your hand in front of your face. What do you see? Nothing! You see nothing because you are ceasing to exist. Feel how the void is tearing you apart, ripping you apart, deconstructing you into tiny little pieces. Feel the pain of the delusions you created about your existence is drifting away, but in its place is a new your being constructed back into a Sith. You are now a Sith, and you are born into the darkside.”
I would close with the Sith mantra or invocation.
‘I have a heart of darkness, I am passion, I am strength, I am power, I am victory, I am creator, I am destroyer, I am conqueror, I lay claim to all planets and stars for the Sith empire, I am powerful, I am Sith and forever we will reign.’
This chant what we generally use when we follow from doing something productive or as a power chant, after our will has been done, as a Sith and as a feeling of elation to close out sessions of gaining dark side power. Ravana Nuun recommends the following Sith invocation or power chant:
‘I am the darkside manifested, I am Cunningness, I am deception, I am Manipulation, I am a True Sith Lord.’
Use either one, as both seems to affect me in different ways, neither has downsides. They draw on a feeling of elation.
The above chapter is by Ravana Nuun, restated by me, for both the book and for personal reflection.